2 volumes : 28 cm

Chapters 10 and 11 are included in both volumes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Volume 1. Beginnings through the fifteenth century / Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw. Becoming human -- Rivers, cities, and first states, 4,000-2,000 BCE -- Nomads, territorial states, and micro societies 2,000-1,000 BCE -- First empires and common cultures in Afro-Eurasia 1200-350 BCE -- Worlds turned inside out, 1000-350 BCE -- Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian world, 350 BCE-250 BCE -- Han dynasty China and imperial Rome, 300 BCE-300 CE -- The rise of universal religions, 300-600 CE -- New empires and common cultures, 600-1000 CE -- Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Death and recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1350-1600

Volume 2. From 1000 CE to the present / Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Michael Tsin. Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE -- Death and recovery in Afro-Eurasia 1350-1600 -- Contact, commerce, and colonization (1450's-1600) -- Worlds unsettled (1600-1750) -- Cultures of splendor and power (1600-1780) -- Reordering the world (1750-1800) -- Alternative visions of the nineteenth century -- Nations and empires (1850-1914) -- Unsettled world (1800-1914) -- Of masses and visions of the modern (1910's-1930's) -- The three world order (1940-1975) -- Worlds together, worlds apart : globalization (1975-1999) -- Epilogue : 2000-2013

Vol. 2

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